Calling all APRN in the treasure coast FL

roser13, ASN, RN · Jul 4, 2016

I will never understand the concept of a school taking your tuition dollars, yet leaving you to sink or swim on your own for clinicals. The reality is that students are asking (mostly) strangers to teach them, unpaid. Who is evaluating the quality of these "instructors"?

The saying "you get what you pay for" comes to mind whenever I see an AP student begging someone on the Internet to take pity on them & take them in.

Trauma Columnist · Jul 4, 2016

Moved to student NP forum

Mhsrnbsn · Jul 5, 2016

I'm paying actually quite a bit for school... The attitude is at a masters level we should be self reliant... Beautiful :no: what upsets me is that I have people willing to help me, but my school wants to bust chops over what they feel is appropriate, for clinicals and not, and apparently hospital care isn't what they want. If they help me, they can place me up to 50 miles from home, and that poses a huge problem because I won't be able to afford to travel cause I will be cutting hours when clinical starts. Trust me it's aggravating and humiliating to beg strangers for help, but I don't have much option at this point. And I am trying to find someone closer to home so I am not bent over the barrel even more. The preceptor is put through a screening process to be sure they are licensed and have no actions against them, but I don't know everything they do on their end.

BeachsideRN, ASN · Jul 5, 2016

I will never understand the concept of a school taking your tuition dollars, yet leaving you to sink or swim on your own for clinicals. The reality is that students are asking (mostly) strangers to teach them, unpaid. Who is evaluating the quality of these "instructors"?
The saying "you get what you pay for" comes to mind whenever I see an AP student begging someone on the Internet to take pity on them & take them in.

I agree with your first point - the fact that a program will accept a student and matriculate them but not provide them with at least a list of providers that they have successfully worked with in the past is ridiculous. When I found out one if the local state schools operated this way I immediately knocked them off my list. It's now the first question I ask when meeting graduate school recruiters.

BeachsideRN, ASN · Jul 5, 2016

I'm paying actually quite a bit for school... The attitude is at a masters level we should be self reliant... Beautiful what upsets me is that I have people willing to help me, but my school wants to bust chops over what they feel is appropriate, for clinicals and not, and apparently hospital care isn't what they want. If they help me, they can place me up to 50 miles from home, and that poses a huge problem because I won't be able to afford to travel cause I will be cutting hours when clinical starts. Trust me it's aggravating and humiliating to beg strangers for help, but I don't have much option at this point. And I am trying to find someone closer to home so I am not bent over the barrel even more. The preceptor is put through a screening process to be sure they are licensed and have no actions against them, but I don't know everything they do on their end.

That is very aggravating and frustrating. Is Jupiter too far for you? I have a contact there that might be able to point you in the right direction

Mhsrnbsn · Jul 7, 2016

Jupiter is a 40 minute trip for me, could be worse! They may know someone closer to me, I wouldn't mind if you PM me the contact info, I won't need to utilize someone for clinical hours until this time next year, I was told I can use my

hospital for 90 hours for advanced assessment so my first clinical is taken care of... I'll need the help for clinicals probably for the summer term when I am expected to do primary care. So I appreciate the help! I may not reach out to them for a bit but it never hurts to have info on a card and try to connect with them at a later date when I know for sure what is expected. They are so tight lipped about clinicals because they want us to focus on our current course load... understandable because if people fail they won't make it to clinicals but still... I would hate to be begging a month in advance and pray someone pitied me!

nursecatraxa · Jul 12, 2016

Hi, it is never too early to secure a preceptor. A semester in advance is good, even a year in advance if the area you are in is competitive.

I agree with everyone that it is indeed aggravating that you pay school tuition money, and course fees and then ending up to find a preceptor on your own. My school does provide a list of preceptors and it is affiliated with a prestigious teaching hospital so you would think that would be enough to get everyone a preceptor. However, there are several schools in the city and shortage of providers that even the clinical instructors are having a hard time placing and matching students with clinical preceptors. I had great response from my first site I went for clinical but I wanted to try other sites and I called a preceptor myself a semester before I wanted to start. She had two students already and she still took me in. I feel very blessed because some of my classmates don't have anyone aligned for this fall semester. That would be scary :nailbiting: and would not want to be in that position.